Feast of the Holy Trinity

One of the features of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ, with the risen Lord working with her as she continues the mission given her (Mk 16: 20), is that the Scriptures and Church teaching did not arrive inscribed on gold tablets or some other lapidary form. They arose from a lived experience of divine revelation and this continues in the life of the Church today. Jesus commands the disciples: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father ad of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you." (Mtt 28: 19). He did not, in that moment or even elsewhere in the Scriptures, explain or articulate clearly what this meant in a doctrinal sense. Yet the disciples knew what they needed to do. Later controversies about the Holy Trinity should not cause us to take refuge in doctrinal formulations and polemics at the expense of actually doing what Christ asked us to do. We have the sense of the faithful (sensus fidelium) and the liturgy as a rule of faith (the law of prayer is the law of belief - lex credendi lex orandi) to guide us as well as the Papal Magisterium and all the other resources available to us, such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This gives us confidence to assert the Holy Trinity as the great mystery of our faith even as we struggle to comprehend it. Furthermore, we have the assurance of the Lord: "And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age." (Mtt 28: 20)